hormone preparation

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• Hormone replacement therapy (female-to-male) — Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for transgender and transsexual people replaces the hormones naturally occurring in their bodies with those of the other sex. However, not all cases of hormone replacement therapy are used by transgendered people …   Wikipedia

• Hormone — Hormones (from Greek Polytonic|ὁρμή impetus ) are chemicals released by cells that affect cells in other parts of the body. Only a small amount of hormone is required to alter cell metabolism. It is also a chemical messenger that transports a… …   Wikipedia

• hormone — hormonal, hormonic /hawr mon ik, moh nik/, adj. /hawr mohn/, n. 1. Biochem. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues… …   Universalium

• Luteinizing hormone/choriogonadotropin receptor — The luteinizing hormone/choriogonadotropin receptor (LHCGR), also lutropin/choriogonadotropin receptor (LCGR) is a transmembrane receptor found in ovary, testis and extragonodal organs like uterus, that receptor interacts with both luteinizing… …   Wikipedia

• Growth hormone — A hormone made in the pituitary gland that stimulates the release of another hormone called somatomedin by the liver, thereby causing growth. Growth hormone is synonymous with somatotropin and somatropin. More specifically (and technically),… …   Medical dictionary

• Luteinizing hormone — A hormone released by the pituitary gland in response to luteinizing hormone releasing hormone. Abbreviated LH, it controls the length and sequence of the female menstrual cycle, including ovulation, preparation the uterus for implantation of a… …   Medical dictionary

• gonadotropin releasing hormone — 1. Biochem. a peptide hormone, produced by the hypothalamus, that stimulates the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland to secrete luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone. 2. Pharm. a preparation of this hormone, used to treat… …   Universalium

• luteinizing hormone–releasing hormone — 1. a decapeptide hormone elaborated by the median eminence of the hypothalamus that binds to specific receptor sites on gonadotrophs of the adenohypophysis and stimulates the release of follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone. High… …   Medical dictionary

• gonadotropin releasing hormone — 1. Biochem. a peptide hormone, produced by the hypothalamus, that stimulates the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland to secrete luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone. 2. Pharm. a preparation of this hormone, used to treat… …   Useful english dictionary

• thyrotropin-releasing hormone — n a tripeptide hormone synthesized in the hypothalamus that stimulates secretion of thyroid stimulating hormone by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland abbr. TRH called also protirelin, thyrotropin releasing factor * * * (TRH) a tripeptide… …   Medical dictionary

• Gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist — A gonadotropin releasing hormone antagonist (GnRH antagonist) is a synthetic peptide that competes with the neurohormone GnRH for its receptor, thus decreasing or blocking GnRH action. As a result endogenous pituitary output of FSH and LH is shut …   Wikipedia